A good example of Perez’s adventurous harmonic comping can be found on the Latin-tinged title track of Across The Crystal Sea. Perez navigates a four-bar chord pattern with a keen sense of color and contrast. He artfully avoids playing a standard montuno here, choosing to lift the song with a rhythmically-charged figure that evokes both Bill Evans and the Pat Metheny Group’s Lyle Mays.